United Dredging Co. v. United States ex rel. M. Sullivan Dredging Co.

MOORMAN, Circuit Judge.

The United Dredging Company entered into a contract with the United States to widen a part of the channel of St. Mary’s river. The specifications required the dredging out of a strip about 200 feet wide on the southwest side of the river at a designated point so that the channel at that point would be 500 feet wide at the bottom, with a minimum depth of 22 feet below water datum. The material to be removed consisted of sand, gravel, boulders, hardpan, and ledge rock. The work was divided into sections and was to bd paid for on a cubic yardage basis of material removed,…